The need for high speed and density in the modem semiconductor industry requires new channel materials and techniques for improved carrier transport and continuous scaling of the device dimensions. As a material for enhanced ...

In this thesis we present two powerful new non-intrusive sensor designs, one for measuring equipment power consumption and one for measuring equipment vibration. We also discuss a unified data management framework for ...

Learning a new language is not always easy. This is particularly the case for native English speakers, who are used to letters combining to form words and tones expressing emotion, trying to learn Chinese. Mandarin Chinese ...

There are currently two approaches to providing Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine replication: an agreement-based approach, e.g., BFT, that uses communication between replicas to agree on a proposed ordering of requests, ...

For NetApp products to be the best in the market, NetApp has to make the correct technology decisions to insure it leads in innovation. In this thesis, I focus on a product called NetApp Unified Manager, examining whether ...

Can one build, and efficiently use, networks of arbitrary size and topology using a "standard" node whose resources, in terms of memory and reliability, do not need to scale up with the complexity and size of the network? ...